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- @andreypopp I couldn't get used to the matrix-based programming style in Python. I tried that, but I'm finding to like Matlab/Octave better. 1 week ago
- Playing with Matlab for the first time in my life. Why didn't I do this kind of stuff when I still was at the uni? http://t.co/rdQNfYLZ 1 week ago
- "What I found was your name all over the place!" is the best acknowledgement of your open source programming work I've ever heard. :) 2 weeks ago
- Please somebody say this is a joke. Firefox 9 apparently doesn't allow me to visit HTTPS sites with self-signed certificates. 2 weeks ago
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Monthly Archives: November 2009
Bazaar commit metadata
I maintain a few open source projects that use SVN, so notes like “Fixes bug #123, patch by J. Random Hacker” in commit messages are more than usual. When I started using Bazaar for Picard, I thought it would be … Continue reading
Disabling sound in GDM
I often have to turn on my laptop in a situation when I need it to be quiet. It’s easy to disable the login sound in GNOME, but in the new Ubuntu release it became quite hard to disable the … Continue reading
Where is my one gig of RAM?
I got a new laptop last week and it came with an extra RAM module. I thought it would be fun to have more RAM in laptop than I have in my desktop machine, so I put it in and … Continue reading
Copy-on-write string performance
Since I’ve started using Qt, I loved the “implicit sharing” concept it uses for it’s strings and container types. It become so much easier to pass these data around. I wasn’t aware that some STL implementations have copy-on-write semantics for … Continue reading
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Tagged copy-on-write, Hacks, performance, qstring, stl, string, wstring
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“MySQL server has gone away”
I have written a few Twisted scripts at work that parse incoming data from a socket and save it in a MySQL database, using the MySQLdb package. It’s a well-known fact that the MySQL server will close connections that are … Continue reading